Though NASA has a robust culture of safety, tragedy has occasionally struck. Three astronauts were killed during training for ...

Columbia mission commander Rick Husband is most often spoken of in the context of his death alongside his fellow astronauts in 2003. However, he is remembered by his hometown of Amarillo as a ...

On January 28th, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Florida, carrying seven astronauts. Just over a minute later, it exploded in a fireball, shocking the world. This documentary ...

At least 69 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake hit a central Philippine province.

Our legal system has painstakingly determined the narrow range of speech that is not legally protected, such as speech that ...

Our First Amendment exists explicitly to protect the expression of dissenting opinions. Our Founding Fathers did not put it ...

Elizabeth Shackelford is a program director with the Institute for Global Affairs and a foreign affairs columnist for the ...

Dissent brings different views to the fore so that they can be debated, and that improves and sharpens arguments, options and ...

Last week, I began teaching a new undergraduate course on “Dissent and Democracy in the World.” I started developing the ...

Days before the leadership election of Japan’s governing party, Ishiba Shigeru visited Busan to meet South Korean President ...

Update for 11 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17: The Cygnus XL overcame its thruster issue and is now on track to rendezvous with the space station on Thursday (Sept. 18) at 7:18 a.m. EDT (1118 GMT), according to ...

A group of gold commemorative Sacagawea coins, seven of which traveled into orbit aboard a NASA space shuttle, recently sold for more than $3 million.